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David Hammons

David Hammons (Born 1943) is active/lives in New York, California.  David Hammons is known for Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre.

David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois. An African-American, he is a conceptual installation artist using his found-object media as a platform for Dadaist social commentary, primarily on racial themes.

Hammons places himself as an artist between Arte Povera and Marcel Duchamp. He has risen to prominence while at the same time consciously avoiding the attention of critics, galleries, and museums, preferring to do things in the street.

Although he studied art in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute, and, in New York City at the Parson's School of Design, he has stated, "I can't stand art actually. I've never, ever liked art, ever. I never took it in school."

Hammons' Basketball Drawing, 2001, 116 x 46 x 12, in the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, features a framed and matted sheet of paper ten feet high covered with dirt from Harlem made by repeatedly bouncing a basketball on it. A found suitcase is be   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5067 characters.]  Artist bio

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